Video Art
find the stillness
This video is meant to replicate the essence of guided meditation. I created this video to draw people's attention to their own inward feelings or mental state - whether that be physical sensation (i.e., heartbeat or breathing) or awareness of thoughts. The video was filmed entirely using an endoscope - a mechanism I used to enhance the feeling of turning inward and is meant to both represent the calm and chaotic states of life.
Farida’s Contact Lenses
This work is based on different perspectives about religion, the Middle East (culture), Western views on the Arab world, and growing up in that mentality while being brought up predominantly Asian (being half-Taiwanese) or in a Western society. I wanted to portray several different perspectives as a reflection of my own mind and the contrast in mindset living in Canada versus living in Egypt (paralleling my experience being mixed).
I tried to mediate plural perspectives by depicting one overlayed video of a combination of three different footage. I wanted to depict how the world is seen through my eyes: a world full of experiences, both good and bad, that can be guided by being in tune with (any) religion - hence the title. I hope for the ideal viewer-experience to be one that is thought-provoking, or inducing for the audience to know more behind the confusing footage I used.
Fayoum, Egypt
A 2018 recap video of my high school senior IB CAS trip to Fayoum, Egypt.